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“If he rebuffs a primary challenge, Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) is set to avoid a Republican opponent in his bid for a second term, after a potential GOP opponent…
“The House voted on Wednesday to rescind tariffs that President Trump imposed on Canada last year, delivering a largely symbolic but politically consequential rebuke that Republicans had fought for a…
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“President Donald Trump is inviting all U.S. governors to meet with him after the White House had sought to keep Democrats out of the annual bipartisan gathering,” Bloomberg reports. Washington…
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“What does ‘ties’ mean? Can you define that? Can you define ‘ties’?” — Attorney General Pam Bondi, quoted by Politico, when asked whether prosecutors have talked with Trump administration officials…
“President Donald Trump’s expansive efforts to use federal funding as a cudgel against political opponents and programs he considers ‘woke’ remain mired in court more a year since his return…
“President Trump has increasingly tested how far political retribution can stretch into the justice system, but his efforts to prosecute his perceived political opponents during his second term have repeatedly…
“Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is feeling emboldened by progressives’ shock victory in a New Jersey special House primary last week — and sizing up his next targets,” Axios reports. “The…
“A man who took part in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and later pardoned by Donald Trump was found guilty on Tuesday of multiple child sexual…
“Top Democrats eyeing potential 2028 presidential runs hope to use the Munich Security Conference this weekend to burnish their foreign policy credentials, elevate their profiles, and convince an anxious group…
“Europe will struggle to fend off renewed Russian aggression without American help, a high-level war game staffed by experts on the continent and former NATO leaders warned, as President Donald…
“The White House is anticipating ‘substantial’ Republican defections when the House votes on a resolution overturning President Trump’s Canadian tariffs,” Politico reports. “Rather than scrambling to head off any GOP…
Mark Leibovich: “Democrats can’t help but keep playing to a stubborn stereotype — a soft and pampered bunch, unwilling to make the gritty sacrifices… necessary to prevail in their ‘existential’…
“Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) on Wednesday demanded U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro preserve all evidence related to her unsuccessful effort to bring charges against him and…
“Speaker Mike Johnson says he has asked retiring Rep. Neal Dunn to serve out his term amid concerns the Florida Republican might resign early,” Politico reports. “An early exit from…
“The Pentagon has told a second aircraft carrier strike group to prepare to deploy to the Middle East as the U.S. military prepares for a potential attack on Iran,” the…
Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL) is planning to announce an early retirement as soon as next week — an exit that would drag the House Republican majority out the door with…
“With just two days until funding runs out for the Department of Homeland Security, there are no signs of a breakthrough between Republicans and Democrats,” Punchbowl News reports. “It now…
“Attorney General Pam Bondi and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) literally screamed at each other during an oversight hearing after Raskin demanded she stop talking over…
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.
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